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| name = Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard<br />
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| image = File:HullabalooInTheGuavaOrchard.jpg<br />
| caption = First edition<br />
| author = [[Kiran Desai]]<br />
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| country = [[India]]<br />
| language = [[English language|English]]<br />
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| publisher = [[Atlantic Monthly Press]]<br />
| release_date = 1998<br />
| media_type = Print ([[Hardcover|hardback]] & [[paperback]])<br />
| pages = 209<br />
| isbn = 0-87113-711-9<br />
| oclc = 39486434<br />
| preceded_by = <br />
| followed_by = [[The Inheritance of Loss]]<br />
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'''''Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard''''' is a [[novel]] by [[Kiran Desai]] published in 1998. It is her first book and won the top prize for the [[Betty Trask Award]]s in 1998.<ref name="societyofauthors" /> It is set in the [[India]]n village of [[Shahkot, India|Shahkot]] ([[States and territories of India|state]] of [[Punjab (India)|Punjab]]) and follows the exploits of a young man, Sampath Chawla, trying to avoid the responsibilities of adult life. Fed up with his life in Shahkot, Sampath goes to a guava orchard and settles himself in a guava tree, where he uses the gossip he learned while working at the post office to convince people he is clairvoyant and soon becomes a popular "holy man".<br />
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Kiran Desai based this book on a real-life story in which a man, Kapila Pradhan,<ref>{{cite news|last1=Jena|first1=Sanjaya|title=Man lives in tree after domestic spat|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4643678.stm|accessdate=9 August 2016|agency=BBC|date=25 January 2006}}</ref> lived up a tree for 15 years. This was the author's inspiration for the book and there are similarities between the novel and Pradhan's life in his tree.<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* [https://www.nytimes.com/books/98/06/07/daily/hullbaloo-book-review.html Review by NY Times]<br />
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[[Category:Novels by Kiran Desai]]<br />
[[Category:1998 American novels]]<br />
[[Category:Novels set in India]]<br />
[[Category:1998 Indian novels]]<br />
[[Category:1998 debut novels]]<br />
[[Category:American English-language novels]]<br />
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